Alabama Mining Institute Photograph albums, 1922-1923 (inclusive).

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Alabama Mining Institute Photograph albums, 1922-1923 (inclusive).

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The two albums contain 153 black and white photographs that depict the company-owned houses and other buildings provided by twelve member companies of the Alabama Mining Institute in 1922 and 1923. The photographs show houses, schools, churches, boarding houses, commissaries, and other buildings in Alabama coal mining towns. Each set of photographs depicts the separate houses, schools, and other facilities that each company provided for its white workers and for its African American workers. The photographs were apparently created at the behest of the United States Coal Commission, a federal agency charged by Congress in 1922 and 1923 to investigate the coal industry and its labor problems.

2 linear ft. (2 v.)

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